Example sentences of "home for tea " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said anything about going home for tea . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's just … he 's brought someone home for tea . ’ |
| 3 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 4 | When we came home for tea , Mummy would still be ironing . |
| 5 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 6 | They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea . |
| 7 | He returned to his boy and the two of them continued with their play until it was time to go home for tea . |
| 8 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 9 | Molly and Judith frequently went visiting other girls in the community after dinner and as often as not did not come home for tea ; and , since Malka had married and left Cork , Judith spent even more Sundays out of the house . |
| 10 | Her daughters suffered , she says , ‘ because I went through periods of such intense misery , that friends would collect them from school and take them home for tea . ’ |
| 11 | Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . " |
| 12 | Fly your rocket ship to Saturn , enter a top secret institute of technology , find and deactivate the deadly TechnoBombs on 12 levels to save the planet from being blown into another Galaxy and then fly home for tea . |